[Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth.

In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

The subsequent success levels, all the other stuff [after Trainspotting], it comes at a much higher level.

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

We made the world uninhabitable for ourselves and it can only be inhabited by robots and androids.

The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.